Electrum can be used as a hot/cold and watch only wallet, so I don't see any problems there. It is my number one BTC (SPV) wallet.
If you are a hodler like you said in your first post, but you saw the arbitrary messages that malicious server operators posted in the past, you are using Electrum as a hot wallet and that's not the recommended way. The positive thing is that you didn't fall victim to the phishing messages. If you used Electrum as a cold wallet, you wouldn't have to worry about server messages, LN, invoices, etc....
You can (if you want that) even run different setups/electrums on the same device by combining the installed, stand alone and portable versions of electrum.
You can't drown if there is no water and if you are in a desert. 
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Hiding the water doesn't make it go away. Hiding possible vulnerabilities doesn't make them go away... ...
Greets.